What Are The Positive And Negative Effects Of The Mongol Empire

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Did the impact of the Mongol Empire a positive or negative effect? In my opinion they had a strong negative effect because they were extremely violent which resulted in a high number of deaths for all men, women, and even children. He even destroyed so much history that we probably will never acknowledge the story of them all. And though this happened, the negativity mostly started with the nomads and their leader, Genghis Khan, who even killed his own brother at a very young age over a single rabbit. And if you think that’s shocking, the Mongols burned down so many towns and villages of China and Asia. Genghis Khan wasn’t his real name, it was a sort of nickname meaning “Universal Leader.” But when his father was poisoned by an enemy of the Mongolians, Genghis and his brother were the next ones in line to rule even though there wasn’t much land at the time to rule at the Mongolian steppe. When winter came around and Genghis Khan was only about four or five years old, he had killed his own brother over a rabbit which he would not share. Khan had killed his brother with a bow and watched him die right before his eyes and this was only the beginning of the violent terrors ahead. A library in early Iraq known as Baghdad, was filled with thousands and thousands of books taken from places they’d conquered or even just wrote themselves. But they had made the poor mistake of angering Genghis. Genghis Khan came, and he gave absolutely no mercy. He had killed not only men, but women and children, burning down homes, hospitals, palaces, and libraries. And not only did he destroy the biggest library, but he took all the books that resigned in the old library, and threw them into the Tigris River. Destroying thousands of books and destroying more knowledge than you could

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